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AN: I will be back in a couple of weeks to my main fics. I finally handed in my thesis so I have the mind to spare into proper fics. Sorry for the wait.

Unbetaed chapter. Will work on it later :)

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Chapter x AU: Time traveling

It was over. The emperor had rewarded Bai Xiangxiu with enough status for her to become Long Heng's official wife. And so, the couple had been rewarded with their happily ever after. It could be seen in their eyes as they married with the proper ceremony and the pomp worthy of a war hero marrying after a great military victory; to top it all, the bride herself had become a legend on her own right, the gossipy house wives and females in general retold the tale of her exploits with increse exagerations to the point it was common belief that she wielded a sickle to cut the knees of the horses along with the special forces.

Not everyone was happy with the union, though. The Female Lead, for once, was screaming like a banshee in a jail built by her husband, her no-longer-deluded cousin, to keep her away from doing anything stupid... again. But there was no one with more grief that day than Song Jiaoyue. The Supporting Male Lead had endured admirably during the whole ceremony with a painful smile while his heart broke into pieces. Still, Long Heng was his still his best friend, and the woman the Supporting Male Lead was losing had her heart so full with Long Heng that Song Jiaoyue would never fit inside ever again.

He tried to be happy for the two of them, but the bitter regret in his heart overwhelmed him and made him lose himself in grief; and so, he went back home early for the party and proceeded to drink himself silly to try to fill the endless hole in his chest, all the while mourning the day he sent Bay Xiangxiu sweets with no heart.

Sorrow and grief often come hand in hand, and Song Jiaoyue started trashing the room in blind violence, bottles, chairs, caligraphy paintings... the scholar's room was becoming increasingly smashed by the second.

"Ahhhh! Master, please don't hurt Shun'er!"

Song Jiaoyue became startled by the childish voice right besides his ear -was he so drunk he wouldn't notice someone creeping on him? He turned really fast, hand still in the air clutching a small pot. There was no one there. Song Jiaoyue started spinning around to search for the sound of the voice to no avail... that is, until he realized that the whinny complain was coming from the ugly spiky plant Bai Xiangxiu had gifted him.

"Ahhh! So dizzy!" the plant, Shun'er complained and Song Jiaoyue let go of the pot, startled, then barely managing to catch the pot on time. 'I must be really drunker than I thouhgt' Song Jiaoyue thought as he apologized to the cactus.

The cactus made a little unhappy sound and an awkward silence settled between man and cactus. 'What the hell is going on?'. The sheer weirdness of the moment was almost enough to sobber up Song Jiaoyue. "Did you just call me 'master'?" he suddenly blurted.

"Papa's Mistress giftet Shun'er to master," the cactus agreed, making his head spin; then a thought popped into his mind 'Did Bai Xiangxiu know the cactus could talk?' Song Jiaoyue couldn't help but wonder. The memory of her iddly chatting with her spiky plant in a cute silly fashion was brought to the forefront of his mind, and he felt she must have known.

Weither it was because of a drunken want of see Bai Xiangxiu before she and her husband went away on their much covetted honeymoon or a simple desire of making sure he was not going crazy, the heir of the Song Family rushed to the Prince Li mansion, all the way to the Hibiscus Courtyard that Bai Xiangxiu had occupied from long before she married Long Heng.

It wasn't surprising to see that Bai Xiangxiu was not on her own... but it was quite a shock to discover Lin Quianzi was trying to stab the woman he loved with a wild frenzy. In a blink, he managed to get between them, just in time to get in the way of the blade. Normally, this would have resulted in Song Jiaoyue saving the day uninjured... unfortunatelly, the man had drunk a tad too much and Lin Quianzi had managed to slap his hand in the process, the spiky plant in Song Jiaoyue's hand flew towards his neck, pricking him.

The last thing he saw as the world became black was Long Heng entering the room and restraining Lin Quianzi with murdeous eyes.

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Song Jiaoyue woke up with a start. His eyes blew wide open and his heart hamered in his chest. He was not in the Prince Li manor, nor was he in his own home. Instead, he stood in a busy marketplace, people coming and going without a rythm. Song Jiaoyue was feeling a bit desorientated, and thus, he walked dazedly, his hand finding his sword by his hip, a sword that he was certain he had not brought with himself in his search for Bai Xiangxiu; another baffling fact was that it was clearly daytime, when a moment ago was night... which meant, he must have lost consciousness for many hours. Still, he didn't understand what was going on.

'I wonder if they have already gone to their honeymoon,' he absently wondered, walking so distractedly that he ended up bumping into a girl with a wide veiled hat. Before Song Jiaoyue could apologize, the girl with the hat pushed him away "Move move, didn't you hear someone calling for help?" the situation of being ignored as such was such an unusual one, but none that he had never been through before. As a matter of fact, the exact same scenario with the same words spoken had happened before to him; moreover... he knew that voice all too well.

"Bai Xiangxiu?" he called. He knew very well that she no longer had the surname Bai, but the words that left his lips came from the bottom of his heart.

Bai Xiangxiu stiffened. "You must be mistaken me with someone else," she claimed, her eyes not meeting his, but how could he mistake some other girl with the object of his affections? He was baffled. But before he gathered his wits to retort, she exclaimed exitedly "make way, make way!". He saw the following scene as though it was happening in slow motion, Bai Xiangxiu moved past him and picked a cloth from the floor, revealing an ugly spiky plant.

Only then there was no doubt in Song Jiaoyue's heart that he had already lived this scene. 'What is going on?'

To Be Continued

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AN: First chapter of the AU down! Now, I have no idea which is the pairing for this, if BXX ends with SJ, LH, YH or with none at all. All suggestions welcome. I'm 100% winging it.